12/12/2016 DAB Transcript

Amos 7:1-9:15 ~ Revelation 3:7-22 ~ Psalm
131:1-3 ~ Proverbs 29:23

Today is the 12th day of
December. Welcome to the Daily Audio
Bible. I’m Brian. It is a pleasure and an honor, as it is every
day, to be here with you. And yeah, we
are counting down the days, aren’t we?
Not too many more in this year and I guess I need to stop talking about
how fast it is all going because we’re all living through it together, but here
we are for another step forward in the scriptures. This week we’re reading from the English
Standard Version, picking up from yesterday in the book of Amos. We will conclude the book of Amos today, chapter
7 verse 1 through 9 verse 15.

Prayer

Father, we thank you for your
precious word and what it means in our lives and the rhythm that it creates for
our lives and the context that it gives to our lives. It is a gift that is priceless and we thank
you for it. We ask your Holy Spirit to
come and plant it in our lives. We thank
you for your goodness and your kindness and your patience, your longsuffering
with us. That really is what it has been
– longsuffering. We see this throughout
the entire Bible, that you have suffered long and you have suffered greatly to
have your people and we have not honored that always. We have not loved you with our whole
hearts. And we have not loved our
neighbors as ourselves. But you have
remained longsuffering and patient, fathering us, maturing us, growing us. We ask that you continue that work. Show us the places in our lives that we have
walled off from you and we haven’t allowed access. Come, Holy Spirit. Everything that we are is because of the
gifts from your hands. The breath in our
lives is from your nostrils. We are
nothing literally without you. We ask
that your Holy Spirit continues to make us aware of this that we might rise up
to our full glory which is your glory through us. Come, Holy Spirit, we ask in Jesus’
name. Amen.

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And that’s it for today. I’m Brian.
I love you and I’ll be waiting for you here tomorrow.

Community Prayer Requests and Praise Reports

Hey DAB family. This is He Sings Over Me in upstate South
Carolina. And I just wanted to share
something, might have enough time for a prayer request my next callback. I have been listening ever since the 9th
of November consistently and I’m all caught up as of today, the 7th
of December, but I’ve also been doing catchup for the summer when all the kids
were home from school, so I am still listening to the last week of July and it
is so cool. I just kind of have a little
glimpse of what it is like for the Lord when we’re praying for him. I’m listening to prayer requests that were
given back in July and listening to those same people and their praise reports
now in December. It’s like I’m a little
outside of time in those moments because they were in need, you all were in
need in July, and now the Lord has answered it in December. I don’t know if this is making sense, but
that is what our prayers are to him.
He’s already answered them. The
July us and December us, those needs have all been taken care of, so it’s been
really kind of neat perspective to see.
Like I listened to December and I then I listened to July and they are
telling me about the needs that I know have already been answered by the
Lord. We know that. We know that our needs and our desires and
our hurt and our pain have been answered and have been addressed. We’re not there yet, but God is. I’m out of time. I’ve just been wanting to share that for a
while. It has been a really neat
perspective and I will continue to pray for you all. God bless.

Hi Elaine. It’s Lana.
I just heard your prayer request.
You just had lost your husband and you didn’t know where you were going
to spend Christmas. Well, actually you
didn’t want to spend Christmas with some of your family because there was a lot
of drinking and a lot of greed going on.
You had some other offers and I hope you take those offers up,
Elaine. I’m also in a similar
situation. I just lost my mother about
eight weeks ago and I have absolutely no one to spend Christmas with this year
because it was just a very small family, myself and my mother. Now that she is gone, I don’t know what I’m
going to do. It’s going to be a very
sad, sad time and lonely time for me, but Christmas is all about Jesus. Yes, we have to remember that. God bless you, Elaine. He loves you.
I know he loves me too. Okay,
Elaine, bye-bye.

Good morning. This is Andy from the UK. Sorry for the noise. I’m on my way to work at the moment. Just been listening. I’m a couple of weeks behind, but a couple of
people have just prompted me and I just want to pray for them. The first is Michaela in the UK. It’s been a long time since I’ve heard your
voice and I just hope everything is okay and a friend of mine, Karen, who is a
fellow listener here in the UK as well, I just want her to know that she is
loved. Let’s pray. Father God, I want to thank you. How wonderful you are. I want to thank you for what you do for each
person, for the joy that you bring and for the peace that you bring. Thank you for who you are and thank you that
you love us. Lord, I just want to lift
up Michaela now. Father God, thank you
that she is your special child, your precious child. Thank you, Lord, for the way in which she
loves and cares for those around her and for those who are here. Lord, take her out of whatever his holding
her back at the moment. Let her know
that she is loved. Let her know that you
love her. Father God, I pray similar for
Karen as well. Thank you, Lord, for the
encouragement that she is to so many people.
And Lord, you know where she is at the moment and you know some of the
things that she is having to go through.
Lord, I just want to pray that she knows again your loving arms are around
us, that she knows that intimate friend in you.
In your precious name we ask, amen.
Speak soon, guys.

Hi, this is Shelly from Missouri
and I’ve listened to DAB for almost 10 years now. This is my first time calling in. I’m sorry.
I’m calling because my granddaughter, Cecile, is 10 years old and she
has been hospitalized a couple of times this year for mental health issues and
this last time they hospitalized her and said she was homicidal and suicidal
and was hearing voices. It is really
hard as a Christian to understand how to fight this, if it is all spiritual, if
it is something biological that needs to be fought with medications. My son and his family are not strong
believers so I’m praying for wisdom on how to fight this battle with my
granddaughter so that she can be set free.
I’m praying for salvation for my son and his family so that they’ll have
an environment in their home that fosters the love of God. I thank you so much because I hear prayers
and hear the prayer warriors all the time and it encourages me in my spirit so
I’m asking you to please pray for my family.
Thank you.

Hello Daily Audio Bible family. This is Angela and I’m calling from Raleigh,
NC. I heard the prayer requests today, this
is the 9th of December, from a lady in Charlotte, NC. Charlotte is a sister city of Raleigh and I
am a sister in Christ to the mom that called that is estranged from her
children. It touched my heart to hear
her prayer request and I heard the pain in her voice as she spoke about being
estranged from her children whom she loves.
I also have a prodigal from my four children who are grown and I know the
pain that causes and I just wanted to pray, Lord God, to lift up that mother in
Charlotte and give her peace, Lord God, that you are working in this situation. God, I pray that the children’s hearts would be
turned back to their mother. I pray for reconciliation. I pray that you would put people in her
children’s lives that would demonstrate the type of love that is needed and that
the children’s hearts would return to their mother. Lord God, I just pray that you would work in this
situation and that you would fill her with your spirit, Lord God. Surround her with your presence. That you would comfort her and that the children
would return home. And Lord, for my
prodigal, I pray in faith also that she would return home in her heart and that
we would be reconciled. And I pray this in
Jesus’ name.

Good morning family. This is Cherry C., Cherry Pie. I just want to thank everybody for lifting me
up in prayer, for covering me. You guys
are awesome. Yes, I’ve been through the
storm, still going through it, but I had to do like the old saints. I had to get in my prayer closet. And I’m telling you, when I got in there, I prayed
for a couple of days, probably about three days. Even at work, going in a bathroom stall and
still praying. God is still on the
throne. Letting you know we all have to
go through. I’m just going through, but
then God. I want to thank God for allowing
me to be transparent, just totally transparent, clear, that you can see
straight through me. God allowed me to
speak to someone so I just could really just get it all out and I really thank God. Asia, you know I thank God for you,
girl. Thank you for letting me be just totally,
totally transparent with you. Girl, when
I was reading your emails, reading it I could hear you speaking and just
praying. I mean, I’m telling you, she
started praying over my life and saying Lord, Malcolm is already covered. He is blessed and he’s healed and started
praying over my marriage. I’m telling you,
girl, you’re my sister now. You’re my
baby sister now. I already took you. So I want to thank everybody for covering me
and let me tell you, we all gotta go through it. Thank God for this Daily Audio Bible so we
can all help each other and keep each other strong. I want to tell you guys be blessed. Thank you guys for covering me. I’m still going through the storm, but then God. I know he’s still on the throne. Just thinking of you guys, everybody that is
calling in, it kind of lifted me up, started thinking about different people. Blessed Like Me, where are you? Dr. John, I thought about you, my prayer
soldier. I tell you, you guys are
awesome. You guys have a great and
wonderful, blessed day and I love you guys.